We worked on two presidential campaigns at high levels and
there weren’t any Russians around. I don’t think there were Russians around the
Obama campaign or the Kerry campaign either.
This campaign had Russians all over the place!
This was a link from the Digby piece to a Politico article showing Trump continuing to work at winning friends and influencing Senators.
President Donald Trump privately vented his frustration over
Russia-related matters with at least two other Republican senators this month,
according to people familiar with the conversations — in addition to the
president's public admonishments of Mitch McConnell, John McCain and Jeff
Flake.
And this was in today's paper.
President Trump's campaign-season flattery of Russian
President Vladimir Putin, a head scratcher at the time, makes a bit more sense
after The Washington Post reported Sunday night that Trump's company was
working on a deal to build a skyscraper in Moscow.
The Post's Carol D. Leonnig, Tom
Hamburger and Rosalind S. Helderman reported that “as part of the
discussions, a Russian-born real estate developer urged Trump to come to Moscow
to tout the proposal and suggested that he could get President Vladimir Putin
to say 'great things' about Trump, according to several people who have been
briefed on his correspondence.”
Oh yes, and Trump had a lot of very nice things to say about Putin, too.
There do seem to be grounds for optimism. There's already enough evidence of Russia-related shenanigans, as well as emoluments-clause violations, general unfitness for office, etc., that the big hurdle is getting enough Congressional Republicans on board with impeachment. Who knew we'd have Trump himself working on that problem by spitting in their faces?
ReplyDeleteYeah, I love that he's actively pissing off the people who are going to have a say in his impeachment. I read Dale Carnegie books at one time. Can't believe Trump ever has. He's like the anti-Carnegie.
ReplyDeleteI see Eric Schneidermann, the AG here in NY, is getting together with Mueller. Colluding, if you will. Apparently, presidential pardons don't work on state crimes. How cool is that?
I wonder if Amazon is taking pre-orders for books on the whole story between Trump and the Russians. I really can't wait to read it. Day to day is nice, tho.